Verizon's Galaxy Nexus to finally launch tomorrow for $299.99
Verizon Wireless on Wednesday finally announced the upcoming launch of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The world's first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phone with 4G LTE support will become available begin...
ReadWriteWeb Acquired by SAY Media
I'm thrilled to announce that ReadWriteWeb has been acquired by SAY Media, a digital publishing company headquartered in San Francisco. ReadWriteWeb will anchor SAY Media's growing Technology channel...
Google+ Hangouts: going beyond the status update
All too often, physical distance and frantic schedules get in the way of spending time together, especially during the holidays. But you know what? They don't have to. — With Google+ Hangouts, you...
Apple may launch new MacBook Pro with 2880 by 1800 display resolution, say sources
Apple is likely to launch its new MacBook Pro lineup with a display resolution of 2880 by 1800 in the second quarter of 2012, setting a new round of competition for panel specifications in the noteboo...
Silicon Valley execs blast SOPA in open letter
Many of Silicon Valley's most successful entrepreneurs and executives are warning of the dangers of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act in a new open letter to Washington, D.C. — It's signed by...
Google's response to Siri is codenamed Majel, could be released by end of year
I wrote about Google's response to Apple's Siri voice assistant several months ago and over the last couple weeks I received further details about the secret project. For starters it is codenamed Maj...
Video Streaming on Game Consoles on the Rise
Streaming video on game consoles is up over last year, according to Nielsen. An October survey reveals that streaming and video-on-demand represent a larger weekly share of usage on Microsoft Xbox 36...
The fall of Microsoft's Andy Lees: inside the Windows Phone power shift
Over the past couple days we've gotten some additional details surrounding the circumstances that led to Andy Lees' removal from his role at the top of the Windows Phone org chart inside Microsoft.
The Real Story Behind Apple's ‘Think Different’ Campaign
This post was written by Rob Siltanen, chairman and chief creative officer at Siltanen & Partners. — Apple's remarkable rise, coupled with Steve Jobs' recent death, has prompted quite a few people t...
SAY Media Acquires Tech Blog ReadWriteWeb Dan Frommer joins as editor-at-large
SAY Media has acquired popular tech blog ReadWriteWeb. — Founded in 2003 by Richard MacManus, ReadWriteWeb became one of the most-respected news sites in the tech world, establishing a voice that's ...
As Facebook Aims at Millions of Users, Some Are Content to Sit Out
Tyson Balcomb quit Facebook after a chance encounter on an elevator. He found himself standing next to a woman he had never met — yet through Facebook he knew what her older brother looked like, that...
Caltech sets 186Gbps Internet speed record, makes our 5Mbps look even more inadequate (video)
Did you know that the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has already produced 100 petabytes of data that needed to be sent out to labs across the world for analysis?
Outbrain Raises $35M In Series D Funding For Content Discovery Platform
Today, content discovery platform Outbrain is announcing it has secured $35 million in Series D funding in a round led by Index Ventures. Existing investors Carmel Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Par...
Feds probing Carrier IQ
Federal investigators are probing allegations that Carrier IQ software found on about 150 million cellphones tracked user activity and sent the information to the cellphone companies without informing...
Tagged Acquires Facebook Competitor Hi5
Hi5, once one of the top three global social networks, was acquired by San Francisco-based Tagged on Wednesday, as some of the remnants of the social network space clear out in the wake of Facebook's ...
Tweetbot rides the NewNewTwitter wave
For a strong take on what people don't like about the new Twitter iPhone app, read John Gruber's article, “R.I.P. Tweetie.” And then, you might want to check out Tweetbot, which seems to be the unoff...
Facebook, Google, Apple And Rackspace Rated Best Places To Work in 2012
Glassdoor, a jobs and career community where employees can anonymously rate companies and CEOs, has just released its fourth annual Employees' Choice Awards, listing the top 50 “Best Places to Work,” ...
HP's proposed brand redesign project detailed in pictures and video
Since 2008, HP has been on a mission to rediscover its identity and express it better through a redesign of its logo and visual assets. The company hired Moving Brands, a specialist in this area, to ...
Google rolls out updated Gmail iOS app with custom signatures, vacation responders, Scribbles, more
Google has just started rolling out an update to the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch with a few new welcomed features. First off, users now have the ability to set a custom signature …
TaskRabbit Raises $17.8 Million, Brings in Eisner as Adviser
TaskRabbit, the Bay Area-based start-up that outsources human “rabbits” to perform odious chores for neighbors, has raised its second cash pile in eight months. — It's also bringing former Disney ch...
Google Places Check-in Offers Now Live
The ability to provide a Google check-in offer is now live. The feature has been added to the Offer coupon creation option in the Google Places dashboard and a detailed help file has been added to Pl...
Stolen iPhone? Your iMessages may still be going to the wrong place
Those who have had a phone lost or stolen are familiar with the horrors that follow: the thief (or the person he sold your phone to) starts to send texts as you to your family and friends, leaving you...
TeleNav launches browser-based turn-by-turn GPS navigation using HTML 5
TeleNav's been bringing the turn-by-turn goods to both Android and iOS for quite a while now, and has added plenty of nifty features to its GPS platform along the way — from personalized routes to off...
Battle Of The Browsers: iOS 5′s Browser Is Still (Slightly) Better Than Android's
Alright, fanboys: get your flamethrowers ready. HTML5 framework development house Sencha has just put a wide array of performance tools to use to answer one of life's geekiest questions: Who's got th...
T-Mobile's Nokia Lumia 710 is official, $49.99 on January 11th
Ahead of an event taking place later today in New York City, Nokia's press site has released a full data sheet and images for T-Mobile's upcoming Lumia 710. The device is largely stock — seeing how i...
Buzzwords 2011: Who's been ‘creative’ and ‘effective’ this year?
With the New Year right around the corner, the LinkedIn team thought it would be a great time to refresh one of our most popular analyses from last year - overused professional buzzwords! Maybe durin...
Tweet justice: Journalists can now live-tweet in UK courts without asking permission
A top UK judge is to make it easier for journalists to use Twitter in court, with the press no longer required to seek permission to live-tweet during court cases. In new practice guidance notes rele...
Sony Walkman gets killer music locker service
Music Unlimited hits the Walkman. — Walkman owners now have the ability to transfer any song from Sony's 10 million-track Music Unlimited library to their device with no restrictions, as often as po...
Now Trending: Turning Tweets Into Trades
It's time to stop calling Derwent Capital “the Twitter hedge fund,” because it's no longer the only one plumbing social media for investment ideas. — Derwent made a splash earlier this year after pi...
Louis CK declares $5 standup special a success, sells 110k copies for $200k profit in 3 days
Comedian Louis CK has announced some numbers related to his recent experiment to sell his latest comedy special, Live at the Beacon Theater, for $5 online, instead of offering it through a distributor...
Apple has big lead over Intel in mobile chips, analyst says
Steve Jobs introducing the A5. — A chip analyst has written a sobering assessment of Intel's chip prowess vis-a-vis Apple in the mobile device race, an odd underdog position for the largest chipmake...
Flipboard's Phone Flips Beating iPad 2:1
Flipboard's iPhone application has clocked up a million downloads in the week since it went live, the company tells paidContent. — Interestingly, while Flipboard's iPad app was previously seeing aro...
LA-Based Startup Accelerator Amplify Launches $4.5M Fund With Backing From Mark Burnett, Brian Grazer, Eric Schmidt
Another startup accelerator is debuting in LA today—Amplify. With the backing of some well-known Hollywood and Silicon Valley names, the Venice Beach-based incubator is launching a $4.5 million incub...
Universal has ‘Tech News Today’ episode yanked from YouTube for reporting on MegaUpload promo video
We're still not sure what to make of the strange war that's erupted between file sharing service MegaUpload and Universal Media Group after MegaUpload posted a promo video that appears …
Lookout's 2012 Mobile Security Threat Predictions: SMS Fraud, Botnets And Malvertising
Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, is releasing its 2012 Mobile Malware Predictions, based on data collected from its Mobile Threat Network …
Hipstamatic Goes Social With Communal Photo Albums
Hipstamatic — which kick-started the artsy filtered photo craze with its iPhone app a couple years ago, but got upstaged by Instagram and its social network* — is now trying for some social pixie dust...
An Honest-to-Goodness App Store You Can Walk Into
Nope, it's not run by Apple, Google or even Amazon. — A new start-up, Openspace, is launching a physical store where consumers can visit and discover the latest mobile applications. — “If your iPh...
Microsoft replaces veteran Xbox design boss
The Xbox team, in 2000, with the chrome Xbox concept prototype. Don Coyner, who led marketing for the console, is wearing the patterned shirt in the middle row, far right. — As Microsoft's Xbox gro...
Tech CEO report card: Approval ratings drop for Ballmer, Bezos and others
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Skype's Tony Bates announce the deal in May. — Glassdoor.com is rolling out its annual “Naughty and Nice” list for technology CEOs. And, as it turns out, it looks …
Google+ Hangouts: going beyond the status update
All too often, physical distance and frantic schedules get in the way of spending time together, especially during the holidays. But you know what? They don't have to. — With Google+ Hangouts, you...
Google Cloud Print picks up steam
Last April, we announced our plans for Google Cloud Print (GCP), the service that powers printing on Chromebooks as well as a new generation of connected apps and devices. The goal of GCP is to enabl...
New Look on Delicious
We've received a lot of helpful suggestions from the Delicious community, and if you mosey on over to Delicious.com, you'll see we've been listening. — Updating the Design — We've begun a comprehe...
Apple made Galaxy Tab a ‘household name’: Samsung
Asher Moses — Samsung Australia's mobile chief says that far from killing its Galaxy Tab 10.1, Apple's court case was almost a blessing in disguise that made the product a “household name”. — Sams...
Groupon co-founders invest $1M-plus into an anti-Groupon: New Belly Digital
Belly, a loyalty and customer rewards program for small and medium sized businesses, launched today in Chicago, announcing it has received more than $1 in seed capital from Lightbank, the firm owned b...
Caltech sets 186Gbps internet speed record
A delicious combination of high-energy physicists, engineers, and computer scientists from Caltech and the University of Victoria have broken the world record for sustained, computer-to-computer trans...
Microsoft confirms Windows Phone SMS flaw, working on a fix
Microsoft has confirmed that the bug in Windows Phone that allows an SMS message is disable the messaging app and reboot the phone is indeed legitimate and the company is actively investigating.